Incedently for those of you running 24x7 systems this little registry hack is a godsend. It means that if you have a service GPF on startup or shutdown, you dont get it hung with a litle modal dialog box, preventing restart remotly without access to the console. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DrWatson] "VisualNotification"=dword:00000000 thanks Tim!